UNSEEN is a nature interpretation center with second thoughts. Set in the
Reford Gardens of Grand-Métis on the Gaspé Peninsula
of eastern Québec, the multi-camera real time machine vision
system observes select plants indigenous to the region. The Dogwood,
the Wild Sarsaparilla, the Harebell, the Foamflower, the Wild Columbine,
the Garden Columbine, the Alpine Woodsia, the Lowbush Blueberry
and the Canadian Burnet are under continued observation during the
entire summer. Using data analysis and classification techniques,
the system searches for instances of these plants. Short texts depict
factual knowledge on the select plants. Over the course of the summer,
however, the flavour of the texts changes. As the initially sparse
garden grows luscious, the system alters the nature of the texts
from descriptive to hypothetical, confronting the visitor with imagined
future plant scenarios. Which types of knowing are valid here? UNSEEN
is a patient observer designed to make you unfamiliar with plants.
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Here the IEEE 2004
Journal on Pervasive Computing in the Arts article [PDF]
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